Dear Gary,
thanks for your quick reply.I asked my old aunt, she knows nearly everything by heart about ancestry. A Jens Christian Ehnstedt was born in 1793 in Hostrup near Flensburg (today Denmark), he died in 1854 in Broager (also now Denmark, at those time part of Prussia). One of his children had 18 (!)kids, 14 girls,4 boys. One of the boys became a sailor and my aunt thinks, he went to America. This must be the Jens Cristian you mentioned. Have you any further details? Do you know any person of this family?
I myself was born near Flensborg, I live now in Hamburg.
My e-mail-address:
joniver@aol.com